Fire victims receiving help today at Element Church

Jean Gordon/Daily Courier
Rutherford County Sheriff's Officer Will Perez comforts Kanean Reynolds while officer Don Huckabee consoles neighbor Mason Webb in Sandy Mush Thursday afternoon. The Reynolds family home was destroyed by a fire and Webb is a next door neighbor.

FOREST CITY —

The Sandy Mush family who lost their home to fire Thursday afternoon is receiving help today from their church family, The Element Church.

Derek and Jennie Reynolds and their children, Kanean Smart,4, Adrian Reynolds,3,and Jaylee, 1, lost everything in the fire and had no insurance on the contents.

The church is open from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. today to receive collecting shoes, clothes, Walmart gift cards and other items for the family today. The church is located off South Broadway Street in Forest City.

The family received immediate emergency shelter from the American Red Cross.

The cause of the fire has not been positively identified but Sandy Mush Fire Chief William Clayton says it apparently started in a bedroom of the house and could have been an electrical fire. Rutherford County Fire Marshal Roger Hollifield is conducting the fire investigation.